From Gizmodo
ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that oh-so-sweet H.264 format. The company calls it the first hardware-based H.264 conversion device for PCs. This little USB key is a video transfer accelerator that lets you convert any video into that butta-smooth format specifically for playback on [...]
From the PDMA blog:
Speaker: David Merritt, Sr. New Business Development Manager for Mellon Financial
The key elements of their newly-redesigned program were:
Innovation was integrated into each employee’s peformance plan… they must generate at least one idea
Innovators were recognized publicly via posters and in company meetings
Innovators were given rewards via a point system, with the winners receiving [...]
Annette Kramer wrote
I spoke to a Partner in a money management firm who talked to me about the qualities of mind he thinks are most important in financial services professionals.
AK: What do you look for in people you hire?
P: All of the Partners had an interesting conversation about this yesterday. I said, “Listen, we hire [...]
My clients, which are Fortune 50 financial services companies, would like to use podcasting internally (that is for their employees only) to support their innovation programs. There are a number of security hurdles to overcome to make this possible.
First, just plugging a USB device into your desktop computer at work represents a major security threat. [...]






